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Description: | obverse design: General von Beseler, bust, full face, in uniform
obverse text: "v.BESELER DER BEZWINGER ANTWERPENS"
reverse design: warrior, full-length naked figure wearing helmet adorned with eagle, stepping from left to right on to low wall. His head
is turned to the left and in his raised right arm he bears a sprig of laurel. He supports a standard with his left hand. In the right
distance the towers and spires of the port of Antwerp and in the left distance an expanse of water and steamship
reverse text: "9.10.1914" (left of figure) | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Capture of & 9/10/1914 = 10/10/1914 DE.A portrait / personification Beseler commemorative First World War Western Front & German Offensive 1914 & Antwerp von (General) | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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